Books: Tired Traveler

Roving, rotund Elliot Paul has focused his shrewd eyes on a good many
different communities in his 58 years. What he saw in the doomed
Balaeric village of Santa Eulalia made moving reading in The Life and
Death of a Spanish Town. One short street on the Left Bank furnished
material for a bawdy but penetrating look at pre-war France in The Last
Time I Saw Paris.

A few years ago Author Paul shifted his gaze to his homeland, started a
multivolumed story of his...